Global ocean-going shipping companies have repeatedly demonstrated to the authorities in general that the shipping industry is taking a great number of measures to keep its crews and shore side communities safe from COVID. Back in July 2020, … [Read more...]
ISWAN launches vaccination drive for Indian seafarers
By ISWAN In response to the second wave of COVID-19 in India, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has launched a ‘Vaccination Drive for Indian Seafarers’ in collaboration with Narayana Health and the Medica Group of … [Read more...]
NSW officials and maritime sector meet to tackle COVID
After 10 months of the COVID-19 crisis and plenty of uncertainty over the management of maritime workers and seafarers, medical care, seafarer crew changes and access to medical care, real consultation started yesterday. NSW public health … [Read more...]
New crew-change policy is neat, plausible… and wrong
Shipping Australia is very concerned about the ongoing crisis caused by a lack of crew changes. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped at sea and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting (without pay) to go to sea. It is a humanitarian … [Read more...]
Regional WA crew changes now virtually impossible
Western Australia's almost complete re-write of its crew change rules earlier this week now means it is almost impossible to carry out a crew change anywhere in WA except Perth. And even there, it is not easy. Crew changes now really only possible … [Read more...]